Trouble logging in?If you can't remember your password or are having trouble logging in, you will have to reset your password. If you have trouble resetting your password (for example, if you lost access to the original email address), please do not start posting with a new account, as this is against the forum rules. If you create a temporary account, please contact us right away via Forum Support, and send us any information you can about your original account, such as the account name and any email address that may have been associated with it.

Note: Tetsuo Hara first created the 1990-1993 manga Hana no Keiji -Kumo no Kanata ni- to adapt Keiichiro Ryu's novel about another samurai, Maeda Keiji.

Hara and magazine editor Nobuhiko Horie then brought in manga artist Yūji Takemura to launch the spinoff Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Tsuki-gatari- in Weekly Comic Bunch magazine in 2008. According to Hara, he felt he did not delve far enough into the life of Maeda's close friend Naoe in the earlier manga. However, Weekly Comic Bunch folded in 2010.

As result, Horie launched a new magazine called Comic Zenon in 2010. The three creators started the ongoing series Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Sake-gatari- in Comic Zenon's inaugural issue.

Shinchosha published all nine volumes of Tsuki-gatari, while Tokuma Shoten published the sixth volume of the Sake-gatari followup in December.

__________________

I will protect you from the darkness and I change my destiny.MyAnimeList

Good question. They do seem to get more stuff then they really deserve judging by their adaptations, but is it a death sentence?

__________________

Let us start here from Square one. No... from zero!
You do not wish to know anything. You wish only to speak.
That which you know, you ignore, because it is inconvenient.
That which you do not know, you invent.Avatar/Sig courtesy of TheEroKing
Guild Wars 2 SN: ArchonWing.9480 MyAnimeList || Reviews

After watching episode 1, why is my thoughts about the show almost filled with nothing but GAR (which is a good thing)? It's like I'm watching Roman, except we travel back to Sengoku era where the warlords are actually warlords instead of genderswapping, but this time, it's sprinkled with rivalry! Also, is it just me or are the MCs too tall to be away from the top? It's like I question myself when watching the show for various circumstances, the theme songs aren't too bad but this is not a memorable series per se. However, Deen is putting enough effort for the animation nowadays, but the stories' adaptation range from mediocre to above average with few exceptions. Let's see if it will reach the secretly awesome (aka hidden gems) department as the season progress.

__________________

I will protect you from the darkness and I change my destiny.MyAnimeList

I picked this up at random from Crunchyroll and thought it was so ridiculously over-the-top that it might be worth watching for a while. I wish the women were more than male playthings, though. Maybe there will be some strong female characters, but the cast list looked pretty uniformly male.

You gotta love a guy who fights while smoking his pipe. Any speculation on what is in it, if anything at all? Maybe he just uses it to project a macho image like Macarthur?